AwesomeLowlander @ AwesomeLowlander @sh.itjust.works

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The fact that this account is posting this meme, when it's the current top contributor to this sub, is ironic.

#botfails

It's not like FNAF invented the term or anything.

I mean, how is a background update a hardware feature?

Hardware features? Background updates? Sorry, could you elaborate?

Edit: Man, this deserved a downvote? Hilariously thin skinned, ain't ya?

To my understanding, no. Heat pumps will always be magnitudes more efficient.

Yes. Regardless, can you really blame them for not wanting to be labelled pedos?

I guess Atlantis turned on their W/C

What are you going on about? It reads perfectly fine. Are we just throwing spurious accusations around now?

To my understanding, people with this issue use the term to differentiate themselves (i.e. attracted to minors, but haven't acted on those impulses) from those who have acted on said impulses (pedophiles). Given the huge stigma connected to the label, I can perfectly understand why they'd want to make that distinction very clear.

Yes, the legal issues would be a huge can of worms. I'm not advocating for free use of AI CSAM, I'd just like some actual research to be done instead of going with the 'think of the children' kneejerk reaction.

No argument there.

Following the effects of a new law in the Czech Republic that allowed pornography to a society previously having forbidden it allowed us to monitor the change in sex related crime that followed the change. As found in all other countries in which the phenomenon has been studied, rape and other sex crimes did not increase. Of particular note is that this country, like Denmark and Japan, had a prolonged interval during which possession of child pornography was not illegal and, like those other countries, showed a significant decrease in the incidence of child sex abuse.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/49644341_Pornography_and_Sex_Crimes_in_the_Czech_Republic

https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-csam-pedophilia/

https://virped.or/ g/vpp20240204/ (Feedback from actual MAPs)

To be clear - I'm not saying the science is in favour of ANY option, I'm saying that due to the stigma on this topic, we are severely lacking in hard data. All we have are hypotheses. It would be nice if people could stop sending death threats to researchers and social workers who try to bring up the well being of MAPs as a topic of discussion and research.

Following the effects of a new law in the Czech Republic that allowed pornography to a society previously having forbidden it allowed us to monitor the change in sex related crime that followed the change. As found in all other countries in which the phenomenon has been studied, rape and other sex crimes did not increase. Of particular note is that this country, like Denmark and Japan, had a prolonged interval during which possession of child pornography was not illegal and, like those other countries, showed a significant decrease in the incidence of child sex abuse.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/49644341_Pornography_and_Sex_Crimes_in_the_Czech_Republic

https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-csam-pedophilia/

https://virped.or/ g/vpp20240204/ (Feedback from actual MAPs)

To be clear - I'm not saying the science is in favour of ANY option, I'm saying that due to the stigma on this topic, we are severely lacking in hard data. All we have are hypotheses. It would be nice if people could stop sending death threats to researchers and social workers who try to bring up the well being of MAPs as a topic of discussion and research.

Meh. There's a strong argument to be made that AI CSAM could reduce harm to actual children. The science isn't in favour of what we'd think is the common sense option.

I've never seen it, but now I want to try it myself.

Interesting. On one hand, it's insensitive. On the other, actual phishers aren't going to be respecting your feelings either. Anybody who failed this is indeed a cyber risk.

(Obviously the employer shouldn't have been making their lives hell in the first place, but that's an entirely different issue)

It's vague enough that you can fit any social issue of your choice in there.

Dildos are technically unisex

What's the joke?

I'm not gonna spoil the books, but things change massively as you progress through the series. So your recommendations might make sense for the first few books, but not so much later on.